Bradley Dack

Um, but a couple of players did get minutes.

Uh, Ethan Coleman and Bradley Dack got half each.

Um, we are gonna start to see hopefully some players returning to the fold slowly but surely.

Would Saturday come too soon for them both to be on the bench? I mean, we have talked recently about impacts on the bench and the likes of Kemp or McCleary have done well off the bench recently.

But I, I don't think, or I haven't seen...

Certainly I'll say this in the case of Dack, I think he'll struggle to come up to, to, to, to fit into the way that Ainsworth wants to play, which is the press, the high tempo.

Um, and that's not Bradley Dack's game.

Uh, you know, it wasn't even Bradley Dack's game, sort of like, I don't think, when he was, uh, free of all those, you know, horrific injuries he's had.

Josh Andrews was injured.

Bradley Dack was injured.

People have come here and got injured.

Now, that's a separate issue.

I think we've got a game tonight in the, not our first team, we have some youth Premier League Cup we're in or something, and I think a few first team players were involved in that.

Rumours, Bradley Dack is involved.

I haven't seen a line-up yet, but if he is, I expect that means as long as he comes out of that unscathed, he'll be available In some capacity this weekend, we've made some good additions.

Apart from Zagorubio, we've come in and done both his hamstrings in 15 minutes, so we'll see him in a couple of months.

You can see it.

When there's a 50/50 ball, or actually it's 60/40 in their favor, he's putting himself in a position where he's going, "I am having that ball," and he's getting it, and he's not afraid to go, "Give me the ball." Now listen, he isn't a Bradley Dack in terms of finding that pass, so he's not gonna score 20 yards out every week.

But what he is-

Mm

You know, you look at the squad and, okay, we've got some that have potential that can move on for a few million, but they're not the, uh, your Adam Wharton's, they're not your Ben Brereton's that were...

You know, your Adam Armstrong's that were all coming in and, and looked like they could really build a...

You know, Bradley Dack for example, if he hadn't got injured, he, he potentially had a really big move that was going ahead.

Now you look at it and it's like, okay, well, where are these major player assets? Um, so we did feel abandoned.

And I said it in the comments last week.

And I am a big fan of Bradley Dack.

I love the man.

He's my favourite footballer of all time.

we could try it.

Why not? You know what I mean? We could see a different Bradley Dack, maybe playing up in Hale's role next to Will Goodwin.

Maybe he's a bit more advanced, picking up the ball, obviously in behind the striker, maybe playing as a bit more of a second striker.

But we don't know when Bradley Dack's expected back, so we won't know when we'll have to face that decision, will we? Because our club, unlike us, don't tell us about injuries.

Moving on to another depth and energy shirt today.

Oli Wright.

Whether we stick to it is a different question.

We've obviously got James Brophy, but he's having to play central because Bradley Dack, you've guessed it, is injured.

Gareth McCleary's barely played.

Kadeem Harris has just ruptured his ACL, so we're not going to see him all season.

We've still got good players to come back, obviously Liam Goulden.

That's the smallest of small sample sizes, but it was absolutely immense and looked everything we needed in a centre half for half an hour against Walsall.

Bradley Dack to come back.

Last season's captains missed most of pre-season with a hamstring.